I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem.

people love to get on here and post about how the site is being destroyed by mean leftists, and then you check their timeline and it is exclusively them getting into hours-long arguments with said leftists

you were never going to get an anti-war president from a chauvinistic, jingoistic political party full of people who fantasize about being in a holy war. and yet, despite the US Army raising the enlistment age to 42, not a single one of these pro-war podcasters and pundits have signed up to fight.

“It’s honestly been eye opening (in a bad way) to see how special interests work in our system” says the Head of Politics at Kalshi, which pays Donald Trump Jr. to sit on its advisory board and has spent over a million in lobbying over the past ~year.

Should rich people get free stuff from the government? No. They can already afford that stuff. Which is why we shouldn't give it to poor people either

things are going to get truly incredible after the midterm wipeout when the depth of his unpopularity truly becomes clear and everyone adopts a “save yourself” mentality

we gotta send so many guys to the Hague

hmm

if you are writing an opinion piece and your argument is designed to blame the left for something the right is doing the evidentiary standard you’re held to by most editors is sub-QAnon.

This is an interesting question and I think my presumed answer is "no." I am distinctly uneasy about what could be coming in 2032.

I will never forgive Third Way for making me care about Hasan Piker

it's so clarifying that the "actually I believe in WINNING elections" group is now saying "it's better to lose elections than get along with the left"

Just saying: If the tent of the Democratic party is big enough to fit Joe Rogan and Liz Cheney, but not Hasan Piker, then it doesn't have room for me, either.

1. lol, and also lmao 2. guess he's given up on his "fire nobody, it's a sign of weakness" policy now that he is actually weak 3. this may become a rotating door, because nobody he puts here can deliver what he wants (successful prosecutions of his enemies) 4. lol, and also lmao

Dems need to look in the mirror and decide the extent to which they actually want coalitions. I don’t care for Hasan’s content, but these people were silent when the tent was big enough for Liz Cheney. If that’s the party they want, fine. But stop demanding fealty from leftists come election time

Nyt humanizing a Nazi sissy while their coverage of actual trans people is anti science terrorism is so on brand tbh.

Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts

I hate the ballroom and this is clearly the correct result. With that said, it’s a perfect example of how fucking broken this country is that he was able to tear down the East Wing without interference from anyone or anything but he can’t build anything in its place due to a court order.

I don't love how every once in a while, a journalist will get a mean response from a random trans person who's clearly in a bad emotional place. And their response is to post the person's handle for their tens of thousands of followers to go harass them in response.

"trans ideology is a sickness." [reads the news] "people's personal affairs are none of our business and we should talk about immigration"

God I am not ready for the bimbofication kink discourse that this site is about to have. It is going to be so fucking exhausting.

Do you think that Kristi Noem played with them to de-stress after shooting her dog in the head?

Sure, college students can still be arrested for writing an op-ed the president doesn't like. But more importantly, licensed therapists still have an unalienable right to tell children that unless they pretend to be straight, god will hate them and watch them burn in hell.

You know, we really have a serious contender for the worst Supreme Court of all time here. Presidential immunity, abortion, conversion therapy, neutering civil rights, and now the upcoming VRA and birthright citizenship cases. What a disgrace.

Thank goodness we have a Supreme Court willing to stand up and affirm the most important part of our constitutional order: torturing children is free speech so long as they're gay or trans.

I understand why they came to this decision, but it really fucking sucks to watch the Supreme Court affirm that torturing your children is a form of protected speech so long as they aren't straight

every single person actively involved in the college republicans in 2026 is the worst person you’ve ever met basically no exceptions

How did we start with "The Ayatollah is dead, surrender or die" and end up at "Okay you get to be a world power as long as you stop shooting us" within a month?

No sorry to disappoint but I think Vance is pretty bad and I'd probably vote for almost anyone over him. Preferably though it's someone who has some real beliefs and isn't as vacuous and stupid and malicious as Cory Booker.

"litmus test" is just consultant speak for "having beliefs"

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

every time a tech founder/CEO outs themselves as some new esoteric form of freak or pervert the legend of Woz grows a little more radiant

There's been a lot of talk about infighting among left-leaning people. IMO the biggest factor is that at this point, the 2030 election is a slam dunk no matter who we nominate. Which means that the Democratic primary will more or less entirely decide our country's near future.

Full on brawl in the FDNY vs. NYPD hockey game

"hi, I know you used to respect me but I want you to know that I care about a nostalgia bait tv show more than your right to exist, please tell me I'm still a good person" you are an asshole just for asking

i think we should start spreading around that trans people say the only ethical way to engage with harry potter content is for it to be generated by AI. not because that would be in any way ethical i just think it would make for an interesting mental illness petri dish

Countries banning all teenagers from social media because "their brains aren't developed enough to handle it", meanwhile nobody's talking about the percentage of retirement-aged adults who have irreversibly cooked their fucking brains on Facebook since 2020.

The midterms are going to be a slaughter. There are at least a hundred people protesting in my small R+5 town. Most of them are not political types.

The correlation between being a Jan 6er and being a pedophile is incredible, it must be like several standard deviations outside what you’d expect just based on chance

Trump has got a booth set up labelled "free backstabs" and millions of people from starstruck losers up to notionally the most ruthlessly pragmatic rulers and business leaders on the planet keep getting in line and then surprised by the knife. Fucking unbelievable.

These people all believe in a secret magical intersex condition that isn't detectable by any objective medical means and whose only symptoms are being kind of butch looking and good at sports, but which makes one an honorary man on a metaphysical level.

israel and the US betrayed iran in the middle of diplomatic talks and sneak attacked their government without declaring war, and iran... did exactly what they've been saying they'll do if attacked. & this comes as a surprise apparently

remarkable that the Times basically ignores any and all public criticism except repeatedly clarifying that they are in fact transphobes

I think that absolutely decimating research in the US is one of those Trump decisions that will reverberate for decades. Shuttered labs and abandoned projects will take years and years to rebuild, graduating class sizes will shrink. This could easily snowball into a lost generation of US scientists.

"At least three" is the best old guy answer to that question he could possibly have offered

“what if iran (and israel) has agency” is something neither commodities traders, nor the white house had considered and they’re still not sold on the idea.

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

anti-trans virtue signaling that is not going to last, because a LOT of cis athletes are about to find out they are intersex